ANY KENTUCKIANS OUT THERE?
I confess– I don’t know the KY home education laws. But at first read, this doesn’t sound like home ed to me:
So begins another day at The Sharon School, a private school that Sharon operates out of her Jessamine County home. Her pupils are 7 to 18 years old, and all have at least one learning disability. Some come to The Sharon School as a last resort, having experienced only failure and frustration in other schools.
…May 27 concluded The Sharon School’s first full school year at its location east of Nicholasville. Sharon does not advertise, and she won’t take more than 20 students. Stepson Allen Sharon, 23, serves as an assistant in maintaining discipline.
…As a home school, there is no independent evaluation or assessment that says Sharon School students are learning and achieving what they must at their age. But parents say they can see academic and behavioral improvement in their children, and they express gratitude for Sharon’s commitment.
Anybody have any info?
2 Responses to “ANY KENTUCKIANS OUT THERE?”
 Comment by Tad June 8th, 2005 at 10:05 am |
This sounds more like a variation of what they used to call a “kitchen school” or “Dame school” in the 18th century. John Adams received his early education in such a school. A local “good wife” would suppliment her household budget by bringing in kids from the area and teaching them basic 3R’s in her kitchen while she did her other household routine. I’ve done some preliminary numbers, and it looks like someone could run such a school in a local neighborhood with about 2/3 the normal g-school class size, charge half of the Utah weighted pupil unit as tuition, and make as much as a typical public school teacher. I’ve considered opening such a school in my yet-to-be-built garage. If one wanted to run such a school, and avoid the problems and regulations of licencing as a private school, the parents could take out homeschool exemptions and organize the thing as a co-op. |
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Comment by Tad June 8th, 2005 at 10:05 am |
This sounds more like a variation of what they used to call a “kitchen school” or “Dame school” in the 18th century. John Adams received his early education in such a school. A local “good wife” would suppliment her household budget by bringing in kids from the area and teaching them basic 3R’s in her kitchen while she did her other household routine. I’ve done some preliminary numbers, and it looks like someone could run such a school in a local neighborhood with about 2/3 the normal g-school class size, charge half of the Utah weighted pupil unit as tuition, and make as much as a typical public school teacher. I’ve considered opening such a school in my yet-to-be-built garage. If one wanted to run such a school, and avoid the problems and regulations of licencing as a private school, the parents could take out homeschool exemptions and organize the thing as a co-op. |